Adventure & the Great Outdoors

The great outdoors... getting out and feeling the sun on your back and the wind in your hair. There's nothing quite like it. In fact, there's a growing trend for people looking to get active while on holiday.

Original Travel would like to think it was an expert in this
field and the amazing adventures suggested under this heading are
destinations with activities ranging from the relatively sedate
such as trekking, through to the more hardcore such as ski-touring
the Haute Route in the Alps or climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. For
anyone wanting to feel a sense of achievement, these are the
holidays for you.

Try one of these amazing adventures, and you'll feel you've
really achieved something.

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Original Thinking

As with all our adventure and outdoor holidays, a member of the Original Travel team will have done the activity in question, so can talk you through exactly what it might involve and consequently whether it is something that might appeal.

Tom, Original Traveller

Where to go

Mana Pools

Mana Pools National Park, in the north of Zimbabwe, stretches from Lake Kariba to the border of Mozambique in the east, in the heart of the Zambezi River Valley.

Empty Quarter 4x4 Adventure

Via Ferrata

Not recommended for anyone with vertigo, the Via Ferrata in the Dolomites, consisting of iron wrung ladders, footpaths and rope bridges, are an exhilarating series of routes that allow non-mountaineers to experience the higher peaks and most dramatic scenery of this most beautiful of mountain ranges.

Iceland Adventure

Cresta Run

St Moritz is famous for the thrilling Cresta Run, descending the ¾ mile long run at speeds in excess of 60 mph (the best riders approach 80 mph), your face just inches above the surface of the ice, is the ultimate in adrenaline fixes.

Climbing Cotopaxi

Get to the top as the sun rises, and you can see the peaks of the surrounding volcanoes glisten red and yellow and miles of glacier spread below with the twinkling lights of Quito visible in the distance. Well worth the climb.

The Haute Route

The most rewarding way to explore the Mont-Blanc massif is by ski-mountaineering, an exhilarating combination of ascent right into the heart of the Alps, followed by a liberating descent in totally untouched powder.